Category: Facilities

  • Norske Electric Onsite Tomorrow

    Brevik Tharaldson, a project manager for Norske Electric, will be walking through the Opera Center tomorrow mid-morning looking at light fixtures in anticipation of an upcoming upgrade project. Much like the McGough assessment effort a few months ago, Facilities will accompany him through much of his visit, but there may be some time when he is walking through on his own, as well.

    We’re very excited for the work he is planning for us – lighting upgrades throughout the Opera Center, fully reimbursed by an Xcel Energy initiative! (more on this forthcoming) – so please make sure he feels appreciated and welcome!

  • Opera Center Elevator Down – Day Two

    Despite our vendor giving us the all-clear to put it back into operation yesterday, the passenger elevator at the Opera Center has decided to act up again. The elevator is currently out-of-service until further notice.

    A technician is on the way to continue the troubleshooting effort. As always, we’ll keep you updated as things progress, and we welcome your questions.

  • Opera Center Elevator Down

    The passenger elevator for the Opera Center is currently out of service do to an operational malfunction. A technician from Minnesota Elevators Inc. is already onsite troubleshooting the issue. At this time, we do not have an estimate for when elevator service will be restored, but we will keep you posted as the situation develops.

  • Safety and Compliance Review

    Our partners from the Minnesota Safety Council will be onsite Tuesday 2/4 and Wednesday 2/5, helping us to evaluate our buildings from a safety and compliance perspective. Adam will be accompanying them through all areas of the Opera Center, Luminary, and Warehouse over this two-day visit. They will be taking detailed notes on each space, using those notes to research relevant codes and standards on our behalf, and then preparing a report for us letting us know both what we’re already getting right and some ways we might make improvements.

    This is a separate effort from the McGough evaluation, but will go hand-in-hand with it. It will also harmonize nicely with the work of our in-house Safety Committee. We’re grateful and excited to have the MSC as new partners in our good work! 

    We’ll be paying close attention to the callboard/daily calendars as I bring folks through our campus. Feel free to drop us a line of there’s anything going on in your spaces of which I should be aware.

    Thanks, as always, for your cooperation and support!

  • Heating Update

    II am pleased to announce that heat has been restored to the areas of the Opera Center affected by this morning’s outage. The air handler issue has been resolved, and we’ve installed an upgraded component that will hopefully prevent recurrence.

    It will take some time for ambient indoor temps to stabilize, but we should be back to normal by tomorrow morning. 

    Please let us know if you continue to experience undue/abnormal cold conditions in your work area.

  • Opera Center Heating Issue – 3M/3/2

    Due to an issue with one of our rooftop air handlers, there is currently very little heat service for the main administrative areas of the Opera Center. For all intents and purposes, until further notice we have no heat to 3M, 3, and areas of floor 2 other than the Dance Studio. Because other air handlers are still working, there is plenty of heat in the rest of the building to keep this from becoming truly dangerous, but I would still advise limiting the time you plan to spend in the affected areas of the building, and to dress in warm layers when you are there (ambient temps are hovering around the upper 40’s/low 50’s). Seems like probably a good day to work from home!

    We’re working with our HVAC vendor to address this problem as quickly as we can. I will do my best to keep everyone updated with important developments.